Job Description
Overview
American Operations is looking for a Enterprise Cloud Architect to support the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) has a broad and diverse research, development, test and evaluation (RDTE) portfolio with an emphasis on warfare systems development and integration. NSWCDD is determined to standardize and automate processes and procedures to become more efficient, structured, and transparent in its mission to provide services such as RDTE, analysis, systems engineering, integration and certification of complex naval warfare systems.
NSWCDD endeavors to deliver IT solutions that are transformational and agile with innovation, collaboration, and speedy delivery through a rapidly scalable and adaptable IT “ecosystem” characterized by on-demand network bandwidth, storage/compute power, and secure end-user data access from anywhere, at any time, from any device.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for designing and implementing cloud computing solutions.
- Facilitate the development of the right future-state architecture and ensure its effective adoption.
- Provide overall direction, guidance and definition of architecture programs that effectively support government operations.
- Responsibilities include advocacy and support of the enterprise’s IT strategies, identification, and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context, analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement, and the development of strategies aligning IT to business, includes designing the cloud infrastructure, designing the cloud application architecture, and designing the cloud security architecture.
- Maintain systems and network infrastructure; provide end user and common device support; provide configuration, change, license, and asset management; conduct training, and perform Install, Move, Add, Change (IMACs) services.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science with 10+ years’ experience, or Master of Science with 8+ years’ experience, or PhD with 5+ years’ experience in a related field
- Experience with cloud computing, including the various cloud deployment models, cloud service models, and cloud deployment architecture
- Previous experience supporting an enterprise IT environment for a DoD organization.
- DoD IAT Level II certification
- AWS or AZURE or Google cloud certifications – i.e. AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Fundamentals, Google Associate Cloud Engineer or higher
- Prior experience supporting cloud migration efforts
American Ops is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. American Operations is a VEVRAA federal contractor and we request priority referral of veterans.
